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Norton Internet Security, 360, and AntiVirus for 2013 Norton by Symantec has released the latest versions of its award-winning core security products, Norton 360, Norton Internet Security, and Norton AntiVirus, delivering on Norton's commitment to extend protection to consumers on all of their devices and in all they do online. With five patented layers of protection, stronger social networking defenses, anti-scam capabilities, and improved cloud-enabled features, the latest Norton products set new benchmarks for protection and performance. In addition, the latest releases are Windows® 8 compatible and engineered to make Windows 8 safer and faster compared with running Windows Defender on Windows 8... Continue reading: Norton Delivers Protection for Windows 8, Social Networking and Scams with Internet Security in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Mastering the Nikon D800 Mastering the Nikon D800 by Darrell Young provides a wealth of experience-based information and insights for owners of the new D800 camera. Darrell is determined to help the user navigate past the confusion that often comes with complex and powerful professional camera equipment. This book explores the features and capabilities of the camera in a way that far surpasses the user's manual. It guides readers through the camera features with step-by-step setting adjustments; color illustrations; and detailed how, when, and why explanations for each option. Every button, dial, switch, and menu configuration setting is explored in a user-friendly manner, with suggestions for setup according to various shooting styles... Continue reading: Rocky Nook Publishes Mastering the Nikon D800 in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Super Scratch Programming Adventure! Scratch is a wildly popular educational programming language used by millions of first-time programmers worldwide. Developed by MIT's Media Lab, Scratch lets kids create interactive games, stories, music, and art and see the results of their work immediately. Just by combining colorful blocks of code, kids quickly learn computer programming concepts without having to master the cryptic syntaxes found in other programming languages. Super Scratch Programming Adventure! is a kid-friendly guide that promises to be the introduction to Scratch that young geeks (and the people who love them) have been waiting for. This full-color, cartoon-illustrated book teaches programming fundamentals with patient, step-by-step explanations... Continue reading: No Starch Press Publishes Super Scratch Programming Adventure! in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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WebGL: Up and Running Get a quick introduction to WebGL, the new standard for 3D rendering on the Web and a member of HTML5’s family of technologies. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn essential WebGL development and production concepts, using the JavaScript 3D engine Three.js. At the end of the book, you’ll put everything together and build a full 3D application with WebGL. You don’t have to be a game development wizard or have 3D graphics experience to get started. If you use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—and have familiarity with JQuery and Ajax—this book will help you gain a working knowledge of WebGL through clear and simple examples... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes WebGL: Up and Running - Building 3D Graphics for the Web in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Photoshop CS6 Unlocked, 2nd Edition SitePoint, the technology training resources publisher for web professionals, has just launched the 2nd edition of its best-selling book, Photoshop CS6 Unlocked: 101 Tips, Tricks, and Techniques by Corrie Haffly. An impressive 448 pages, it takes readers through everything they need to get started and then master Photoshop CS6 for their web projects. Photoshop CS6 is the latest version of Adobe's industry-leading image editor, and includes a series of new creative design tools (such as Content-Aware), as well as a fully redesigned interface... Continue reading: SitePoint Publishes Photoshop CS6 Unlocked, 2nd Edition: 101 Tips, Tricks, and Techniques in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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LEGENDARY AMAZONS on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Based on the epic 1972 martial arts classic The 14 Amazons, renowned actor and producer Jackie Chan and director Frankie Chan’s (A Warrior’s Tragedy 2) remake, LEGENDARY AMAZONS, debuts on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital October 16th from Well Go USA Entertainment. Cecilia Cheung (Shaolin Soccer), Cheng Pei-Pei (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) and Liu Ziaoqing (Plastic Flowers) star as widowed wives who must lead the other widows into battle when the last of a long line of Song generals are killed. Richie Ren (Life Without Principle, Accident) also stars as Yang Zongbao, the last of the Song generals to fall. Bonus materials include a behind-the-scenes featurette and a new, optional English dub... Continue reading: LEGENDARY AMAZONS debuts on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital October 16th from Well Go USA in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Illustrated Guide to Home Forensic Science Experiments Have you ever wondered whether the forensic science you've seen on TV is anything like the real thing? There's no better way to find out than to roll up your sleeves and do it yourself. Illustrated Guide to Home Forensic Science Experiments offers advice for setting up an inexpensive home lab, and includes more than 50 hands-on lab sessions that deal with forensic science experiments in biology, chemistry, and physics. You'll learn the practical skills and fundamental knowledge needed to pursue forensics as a lifelong hobby—or even a career. The forensic science procedures in this book are not merely educational, they're the real deal. Each chapter includes one or more lab sessions devoted to a particular topic. You'll find a complete list of equipment and chemicals you need for each session... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes the Illustrated Guide to Home Forensic Science Experiments in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV Learn how to build your own computer vision (CV) applications quickly and easily with SimpleCV, an open source framework written in Python. Through examples of real-world applications, this hands-on guide introduces you to basic CV techniques for collecting, processing, and analyzing streaming digital images. You’ll then learn how to apply these methods with SimpleCV, using sample Python code. All you need to get started is a Windows, Mac, or Linux system, and a willingness to put CV to work in a variety of ways. Programming experience is optional... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Drupal for Designers Are you a solo web designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal? This hands-on book provides the tools and techniques to get you going. Award-winning designer Dani Nordin guides you through site planning, teaches you how to create solid, user-centered design for the Drupal framework, and shows you tricks for using real, honest-to-goodness, developer Ninja Magick. This book is a compilation of three short guides—Planning Drupal Projects, Design and Prototyping for Drupal, and Drupal Development Tricks for Designers—plus exclusive "director’s material." If you’re familiar with HTML and CSS, but struggling with Drupal’s learning curve, this is the book you’ve been looking for... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes Drupal for Designers: The Context You Need Without the Jargon You Don't in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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GENERAL EDUCATION on Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Rising stars Chris Sheffield (Transformers: Dark of the Moon) and Maiara Walsh (TV’s “Switched At Birth”) star in Director Tom Morris’ (Ship Wrecked Cove) coming-of-age comedy GENERAL EDUCATION, debuting on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital October 2nd from Well Go USA. Levi Collins (Sheffield) is in jeopardy of losing his college scholarship after failing his science class in his final year of high school. Forced to attend summer school, he finds himself in class with his crush Katie (Walsh) and sparring with a strict teacher and bully. In order to hide his big secret from his parents, Levi must choose between preparing for a tennis tournament and a receiving proper education... Continue reading: GENERAL EDUCATION Debuts on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital October 2nd in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
TrueUpdate 3.6 Auto-Updating for Win 8 Apps Indigo Rose Software announces the availability of TrueUpdate 3.6 with full support for Microsoft Windows 8. TrueUpdate is a development tool that allows programmers to easily integrate an automated "check for update" feature into their software applications. Now no matter what version of Microsoft Windows their clients are using, software developers can ensure that the latest point release of a software product is automatically delivered.TrueUpdate easily integrates into software applications in order to keep those programs automatically up to date... Continue reading: TrueUpdate 3.6 Enables Auto-Updating for Microsoft Windows 8 Applications in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Intermediate Perl, 2nd Edition This book picks up right where Learning Perl leaves off. With Intermediate Perl, you’ll graduate from short scripts to much larger programs, using features that make Perl a general-purpose language. This gentle but thorough guide introduces you to modules, complex data structures, and object-oriented programming. Each chapter is small enough to be read in just an hour or two, ending with exercises to help you practice what you’ve learned. If you’re familiar with the material in Learning Perl and have the ambition to go further, Intermediate Perl will teach you most of the core Perl language concepts you need for writing robust programs on any platform... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes Intermediate Perl, 2nd Edition: Beyond the Basics of Learning Perl in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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THE COURIER on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Jeffrey Dean Morgan (TV’s “Magic City,” “Grey’s Anatomy”), Josie Ho (Contagion), Til Schweiger (Inglourious Basterds), Academy Award® nominee Mickey Rourke (Best Actor, The Wrestler, 2008), Lily Taylor (Say Anything, TV’s “Six Feet Under”) and Miguel Ferrer (TV’s “NCIS: Los Angeles”) star in non-stop action thriller THE COURIER, debuting on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital October 9th from Well Go USA Entertainment. The story centers on a daredevil courier (Morgan) trying to deliver a briefcase to an underworld figure (Rourke) who can't be found. Bonus materials include a behind-the-scenes featurette and deleted/extended scenes... ` Continue reading: THE COURIER debuting on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital October 9th from Well Go USA in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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BEDEVILLED on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Yeong-hie Seo (The Chaser) and Seong-won Ji (Harmony) star in Director Chul-soo Jang chilling first feature BEDEVILLED, debuting on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital October 9th from Well Go USA Entertainment. When her pleas for help are ignored and cause her daughter's death, a woman seeks revenge on the person she blames. BEDEVILLED won the Audience Award for “Best Film” and Seo Yeong-hee was named “Best Actress” at Austin’s 2010 Fantastic Fest. In addition, the film was awarded the Grand Prize as Best Film at the 2011 Gérardmer Film Festival and Yeong-hie Seo won “Best Actress” at the 2011 Fantasporto International Fantasy Film Award. Bonus features include a behind-the-scenes featurette... Continue reading: BEDEVILLED debuting on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital October 9th from Well Go USA in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Great Photos - Simple Cameras Everyday life can be far from easy. Indeed, it is often just the opposite: complicated instead of simple; demanding instead of effortless. As photographers, we face a similar situation in regard to our chosen hobby. Cameras and computers are wonderful technical instruments, but their growing complexity can sometimes detract from the joy we find when we engage in creative work. In Great Photos–Simple Cameras, author Bernd Daub shows us that simplicity works. He describes that with simple camera techniques, traditional film, and some imagination we can create ambitious artwork. This book teaches us how to focus our attention on the motivation behind our chosen image and develop a strong impact without the need for high-tech equipment and flawless exposures... Continue reading: Great Photos - Simple Cameras: An Alternative Approach to Creative Photography from Rocky Nook in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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LED Lighting: A Primer to Lighting the Future We're on the brink of a lighting revolution with light-emitting diodes—the tiny LEDs you've seen in electronic devices for years. "It might not be a transition that everyone is thinking about actively," says author Sal Cangeloso, "but it has major implications for energy use and environmental initiatives. It's also a really interesting example of how technology changes over time and results in a noticeable change in our lives." With LED Lighting, you'll go behind the scenes to see how and why manufacturers are now designing LED devices to light everything from homes and offices to streets and warehouses... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes LED Lighting: A Primer to Lighting the Future in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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The Dust Bowl on Blu-ray and DVD Celebrated documentarian Ken Burns delivers an engrossing chronicle of America’s greatest environmental catastrophe with THE DUST BOWL, arriving on Blu-ray and DVD November 20, 2012 from PBS Distribution and Paramount Home Media Distribution. The two-part, four-hour documentary offers a dramatic depiction of how human blindness to the balance of nature destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains throughout the 1930s as prairies were turned into deserts and massive deadly dust storms took the lives and hopes of many Americans. Yet amidst the heartbreaking tragedy, there are also tales of heroic perseverance as families found ways to survive and government agencies and farmers worked together to develop new farming and conservation methods... Continue reading: The Dust Bowl - Two-Part Documentary Debuts on Blu-ray and DVD November 20th in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
Real Studio 2012 Release 1 Software Development Tool Real Software, creator of object-oriented, cross-platform software development tools for the web and desktop, today announced the latest version of its flagship product, Real Studio. Real Studio 2012 Release 1 contains a record 350 improvements and 3 new features: OS X Mountain Lion support, Webkit support for HTMLViewer on Windows and a new way for SQLite BLOBs that allows data in a BLOB to be added sequentially, making it much faster and more responsive. Additionally, this release significantly strengthens Real Studio’s Cocoa support.“Focusing on the quality updates that will improve Real Studio developer’s efficiency and overall experience is one of our top priorities. This release is monumental for us because it includes... Continue reading: Real Software Announces Real Studio 2012 Release 1 in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Sixty Tips for Creative iPhone Photography In Sixty Tips for Creative iPhone Photography, author Martina Holmberg shares sixty tips that cover everything from shooting and editing photos using your iPhone's basic features, to using third-party apps for turning ordinary snapshots into unique and artistic images. The book is filled with images that illustrate each tip and technique. Also included are two guest galleries that showcase iPhone photos from professional photographers Dominique James and Uwe Steinmueller. You'll be amazed and inspired by the artistic photography that can be achieved using the iPhone. Topics include: Shooting and editing photos using the iPhone's standard features; Using the camera's limitations to your advantage... Continue reading: Rocky Nook Publishes Sixty Tips for Creative iPhone Photography in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Think Like a Programmer There are plenty of resources out there that effectively teach programming languages. But the real challenge of programming isn't learning a language's syntax—it's learning to creatively solve problems in order to build something great. In Think Like a Programmer, author V. Anton Spraul breaks down the ways programmers solve problems and teaches readers what other introductory books often ignore: how to Think Like a Programmer. Each chapter tackles a single programming concept—such as classes, pointers, or recursion—and illustrates how to apply the tool to real problems in innovative ways. Readers will learn techniques for organizing their thoughts, strategies to apply to particular types of problems, and ways they can avoid the frustration that often accompanies especially tricky challenges... Continue reading: No Starch Press Publishes Think Like a Programmer in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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The Data Journalism Handbook When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field. This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation launched the project at MozFest 2011. Through a collection of tips and techniques from leading journalists, professors, software developers, and data analysts, you’ll learn how data can be either the source of data journalism or a tool with which the story is told—or both... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes The Data Journalism Handbook - Use Data to Improve the News in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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G.I. JOE: Renegades: Complete First Season on Blu-ray On September 25, 2012, G.I. JOE: RENEGADES: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON Blu-ray Collection debuts on home entertainment shelves from Shout! Factory, in collaboration with Hasbro Studios. This highly anticipated 3-disc Blu-ray set collects all 26 adventure-filled episodes and an original behind-the-scenes look at G.I. JOE: RENEGADES bonus feature. Delivering exciting, action-packed storytelling and spectacular animation, this special Blu-ray collection is a must-have for fans and collectors of all ages. Also available to own on the same day is the G.I. JOE:RENEGADES Season One, Volume Two DVD set, highlighting the second half of exhilarating episodes from the first season... Continue reading: G.I. JOE: Renegades: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray September 25th in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Videogame Fight through some of the most pivotal moments in the TRANSFORMERS saga with Activision Publishing, Inc.'s TRANSFORMERS: FALL OF CYBERTRON video game available now at retail outlets nationwide. Created by acclaimed developer High Moon Studios and serving as the official canon story for Hasbro's legendary TRANSFORMERS property, TRANSFORMERS: FALL OF CYBERTRON gives gamers the opportunity to experience the final, darkest hours of the civil war between the AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS, eventually leading to the famed exodus from their dying home planet. With the stakes higher and scale bigger than ever, players will embark on an action-packed journey through a post-apocalyptic, war-torn world designed around... Continue reading: Experience the Final Battles of the Transformers Home Planet in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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New Seasons of Carsey-Werner TV Series on DVD Mill Creek Entertainment, a recognized leader in value entertainment will release new seasons of some of the most popular, award-winning sitcoms from Carsey-Werner Television Distribution on DVD in September including “Grounded for Life –The Complete Series,” “That ‘70s Show” Seasons 5 and 6, and “Roseanne” Seasons 5 and 6. Additionally, other television favorites including two Sir Arthur Conan collections “Sherlock Holmes,” the TV miniseries and his original Jurassic double feature “The Lost World” and “Return to the Lost World” along with “On Duty Firefighters,” the Complete Series will also be released in September for unbelievably low prices starting at $9.98... Continue reading: New Seasons of Carsey-Werner TV Series on DVD from Mill Creek Entertainment in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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REVIEW: BenQ Joybee GP2 Portable Projector If you're in the market for a portable projector, you may want to take a look at the BenQ Joybee GP2, which is the high-definition version of the Joybee product line. It's successor, the BenQ Joybee GP1, had many of the same features, but provided a lower video resolution. The GP2, however, does provide additional features that viewers on-the-go may need. These new features include 200 lumens of brightness (compared to the 100 lumens of the GP1), an HDMI port to support the higher-resolution, an SD card slot, and an iPhone/iPod Touch dock. GP2 – What's In The Box? Other than the projector itself, the package contains a carrying case, power cord, power adapter, CEA30 pin cable, remote (with battery included), a mini HDMI adapter (that can be used for connecting an iPad), a USB cable, a quick start guide, and... Read the REVIEW: BenQ Joybee GP2 Portable Projector in Reviews. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Learning Rails 3: Rails from the Outside In If you're a web developer or designer ready to learn Rails, Learning Rails 3 is the ideal way to start. "The process of learning Rails can feel like a moving target," says coauthor Eric Gruber. "The framework is constantly evolving and continually maturing. Learning Rails 3 is a major rewrite from the previous edition, walking the reader through the many incredible changes to this popular web development tool." Rather than throw you into the middle of the framework's Model-View-Controller architecture, Learning Rails 3 works from the outside in. You'll begin with the foundations of the Web you already know, and learn how to create something visible with Rails' view layer. Then you'll tackle the more difficult inner layers... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes Learning Rails 3: Rails from the Outside In in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual What do you get when you cross a Mac with an iPad? OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Its 200 new features include iPaddish goodies like dictation, Notification Center, and Reminders—but not a single page of instructions. Fortunately, David Pogue is back, with the expertise and humor that have made this the #1 bestselling Mac book for over 10 years straight. There's something new on practically every page of this new edition, and David Pogue brings his celebrated wit and expertise to every one of them. Apple's brought a new cat to town, and Mac OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual is the best way to tame it... Continue reading: O'Reilly Publishes OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 4: A Photographer's Handbook In Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 4, Adobe Certified Instructor Stephen Laskevitch has leveraged his experience as a teacher and practitioner to create a guide that provides a clear and effective workflow for editing photographs in Photoshop CS6 and its companions Bridge, Camera Raw, and Lightroom 4. Focusing on the critical elements of a workflow rather than covering every arcane feature, this book is designed to get you working quickly in these applications. In addition to the essential features of these programs, Laskevitch covers new features specific to the 2012 releases, including... Continue reading: Rocky Nook Publishes Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 4: A Photographer's Handbook in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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WD Red Hard Drives For SOHO NAS Systems WD ®, a storage industry leader, has announced the debut of WD Red™ NAS hard drives, an innovative line of SATA hard drives specifically designed for home and small office NAS (network attached storage) systems with one to five drive bays. Compatibility-tested with top NAS box manufacturers and optimized for power and performance, WD Red hard drives are now shipping in 3.5-inch 1 TB, 2 TB and 3 TB capacities. The WD Red line features NASware™ technology, designed to improve reliability and system performance, reduce customer downtime and to simplify the integration process. This new product line addresses the unique environment of NAS and the growing demand for affordable, reliable and compatible storage that reduces customer total cost of ownership. WD Red hard drives also feature 3D Active Balance Plus, an enhanced balance control technology, which... Continue reading: WD Designs First Hard Drives For SOHO NAS Systems - New WD Red Drives in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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Basic4android V2.00 for Android App Development Anywhere Software, a leading provider of developers' tools for the Android, Windows Mobile, and Pocket PC platforms, has announced the release of a major upgrade to its Basic4android development platform. Basic4android is a comprehensive, feature-rich Rapid Application Development toolbox that enables both novices and experts to develop high-performance native Android apps without the need for complex and time-consuming Java and XML programming. "As the market share for Android-based smartphones and tablets continues to grow, so has the need for Rapid Application Development tools that simplify and accelerate time-to-revenue for Android applications," said Erel Uziel, CEO of Anywhere Software. "Basic4android is designed to take the learning curve out of Android development... Continue reading: Basic4android V2.00 Makes It Even Easier to Develop Powerful Android Apps in News. - Comments (Reply To Topic) |
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